Security Threat Management in Prison: Revalidation and Revision of the Inmate Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement

2021 ◽  
pp. 003288552110691
Author(s):  
Ryan M. Labrecque
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Institutional Misconduct ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Threat Management ◽  
Institutional Order ◽  
Management Services

Prison officials often rely on restrictive housing to promote institutional safety and security. However, a growing body of research indicates this type of confinement has little impact on inmate behavior or institutional order. An alternative approach involves providing the most dangerous and disruptive inmates with increased case management services and other proactive programmatic opportunities. The success of this strategy requires an ability to prospectively and accurately identify the most problematic inmates. The results of this study indicate that Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement (RASP) and its revised Oregon version (RASP-OR) are valid predictors of segregation placement and institutional misconduct. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

An Examination of Changes in LSI-R Scores Over Time: Making the Case for Needs-Based Case Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 541-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda D. Schlager ◽  
Daniel Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Community Corrections ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Change Scores ◽  
Risk Assessment Instrument ◽  
Over Time

The Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) is an actuarially derived risk assessment instrument with a demonstrated reputation and record of supportive research. It has shown predictive validity on several offender populations. Although a significant literature has emerged on the validity and use of the LSI-R, no research has specifically examined change scores or the dynamics of reassessment and its importance with respect to case management. Flores, Lowenkamp, Holsinger, and Latessa and Lowenkamp and Bechtel, among others, specifically identify the importance and need to examine LSI-R reassessment scores. The present study uses a sample of parolees ( N = 179) from various community corrections programs that were administered the LSI-R at two different times. Results indicate that both mean composite and subcomponent LSI-R scores statistically significantly decreased between Time 1 and Time 2. The practical, theoretical, and policy implications of these results are discussed.

scholarly journals Reducing Institutional Disorder: Using the Inmate Risk Assessment for Segregation Placement to Triage Treatment Services at the Front End of Prison Sentences

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan M. Labrecque ◽  
Paula Smith
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Institutional Misconduct ◽  
Intake Process ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Risk Assessment Instrument ◽  
Front End ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Institutional Order

Most correctional scholars and policy makers agree that prison authorities should use restrictive housing less, yet few studies exist to provide guidance on how to do so while also ensuring institutional order. This study advances the idea that proactively providing rehabilitative programming to inmates at the front end of prison sentences will help reduce institutional disorder. In so doing, we create and validate a risk assessment instrument to predict inmate likelihood for placement in restrictive housing during one’s commitment. The findings of this study support the predictive validity of the tool. We argue that authorities can use this assessment to make more informed and targeted programming decisions during the intake process that will help reduce institutional misconduct and the need for restrictive housing.

Case Management Services for HIV-Seropositive IDUs

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Virginia McCoy ◽  
◽  
Sally Dodds ◽  
James E. Rivers ◽  
Clyde B. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Hiv Seropositive ◽  
Management Services

An alternative approach for the operational risk assessment of a new product

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Giacchero ◽  
Jacopo Moretti ◽  
Francesco Cesarone ◽  
Fabio Tardella
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Operational Risk ◽  
New Product ◽  
Alternative Approach

Far From Home: An Examination of the Juvenile Visitation Experience and the Barriers to Getting There

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 1409-1423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brae Campion Young ◽  
Melissa R. Nadel ◽  
William D. Bales ◽  
George B. Pesta ◽  
Mark A. Greenwald
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Residential Facilities ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Positive Experiences

Despite a growing body of research on prison visitation, very few studies have examined visitation among committed juvenile offenders. As a result, we have little understanding of how youth experience visits and why some never receive them. This article fills these gaps. Using surveys collected from 1,202 youth released from residential facilities in Florida, we found that among youth who were visited, they had positive experiences with visits and that families went to great lengths to visit. For those youth who were not visited, the most common barrier was distance from home. However, some youth were not visited because they refused visits or because families withheld visits as punishment. Moreover, despite the possibility that lack of visitation is harmful, we found that most not-visited youth had positive perceptions of their future success. Policy implications and directions for research are discussed.

Post-release Case Management Services and Health-Seeking Behavior Among HIV-Infected Ex-Offenders

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly R. Jacob Arriola ◽  
Ronald L. Braithwaite ◽  
Elizabeth. Holmes ◽  
Renata M. Fortenberry
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Health Seeking Behavior ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Management Services

scholarly journals Coastal and river flood risk analyses for guiding economically optimal flood adaptation policies: a country-scale study for Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2121) ◽  
pp. 20170329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toon Haer ◽  
W. J. Wouter Botzen ◽  
Vincent van Roomen ◽  
Harry Connor ◽  
Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Flood Protection ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Flood Adaptation

Many countries around the world face increasing impacts from flooding due to socio-economic development in flood-prone areas, which may be enhanced in intensity and frequency as a result of climate change. With increasing flood risk, it is becoming more important to be able to assess the costs and benefits of adaptation strategies. To guide the design of such strategies, policy makers need tools to prioritize where adaptation is needed and how much adaptation funds are required. In this country-scale study, we show how flood risk analyses can be used in cost–benefit analyses to prioritize investments in flood adaptation strategies in Mexico under future climate scenarios. Moreover, given the often limited availability of detailed local data for such analyses, we show how state-of-the-art global data and flood risk assessment models can be applied for a detailed assessment of optimal flood-protection strategies. Our results show that especially states along the Gulf of Mexico have considerable economic benefits from investments in adaptation that limit risks from both river and coastal floods, and that increased flood-protection standards are economically beneficial for many Mexican states. We discuss the sensitivity of our results to modelling uncertainties, the transferability of our modelling approach and policy implications. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Advances in risk assessment for climate change adaptation policy’.

Limitations in knowledge of HIV transmission among HIV-positive patients accessing case management services in a resource-poor setting

AIDS Care ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 764-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Smith Fawzi ◽  
P. Jagannathan ◽  
J. Cabral ◽  
R. Banares ◽  
J. Salazar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Resource Poor Setting ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Resource Poor ◽  
Management Services
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